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I filled up 6 jars and sterlilized, then inoculated. Anyway, it was only yesterday, so I can't really mention germination yet. Anyway, I'm wondering if this was a good idea, and more importantly, if the water content is correct. I'd hate for the substrate to be too dry.

Anyone have experience with this type of recipe?

Peace.

I choked Linda Lovelace!

--------------------"If you believe in things you do not understand, you will suffer." ? Stevie Wonder

Sounds like a bad mixture to me. Unless you pressure cook it really well, the worm castings and dung will contam the BRF. It would be better to use BRF and verm alone and, when they are fully colonized, case with the composted dung and worm castings.

The only reason I posted the recipe was to find out about the water content. I'm happy to say that all six jars are showing obviously rhizomorphic mycelial growth. So it seems the water content was perfect.

I'm not a newbie, ya know. My sterile technique is good enough that I've never lost a jar to contamination. I figured I'd try to make up a new recipe for the sake of experimentation. Why not have the potency boost from the BRF and the size boost from the dung? Besides, if for some reason the experiment fails, there really is no love lost because I made my own spore syringes and I will have learned something not found in either the Stamets book or on PF's web site, heaven forbid.

Anyway, I'd have to say the recipe above is performing nicely.

And by the way, you don't want to case with nutritious materials such as dung and worm castings. Talk about a bad mixture!

Also, colonizing BRF/verm is ONE way to do it. The PF Tek is a good start - a fine building block - but for sakes alive, let's try something different, people - just for the hell of it. In any case, I pressure cooked for more than an hour. The spores germinated and the myclia are strong. From here, I think I'll take two jars, crumble, and spawn some composted dung/worm shit. The other four jars will be crumbled and cased.

Thanks anyway for the input. I will continue to post results.

Peace.

I choked Linda Lovelace!

--------------------"If you believe in things you do not understand, you will suffer." ? Stevie Wonder

As for the mixture without the worm castings, they have rpoduced nice results for Pan Trop like for anno, so I suppose the worm castings might give you some extra nutritional value.
For the water content, if nothing looks stickey, and if mycelium can colonise all of the substrate, your water content iis about right!

Quote:sylo said:Sounds like a bad mixture to me. Unless you pressure cook it really well, the worm castings and dung will contam the BRF. It would be better to use BRF and verm alone and, when they are fully colonized, case with the composted dung and worm castings.<br><br>

If you are pressure cooking, it doesn't really matter what you put into the jar, it will be sterilized, so with proper technique there shouldn't be any issue with contamination.